Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | Python | c++ | project management

Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008

Jutta Horstmann

Location: Germany
Speaking Topics: drupal | linux | MySQL | Open Source CMS | Open Source Databases | postgresql

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Jutta Horstmann is an IT consultant.

Her company "data in transit" provides Open Source software and services.

At the moment, she focusses on web programming, database applications and content management systems.

Before, she administrated UNIX and Linux systems as well as several database management system flavours.

Previous Presentations: 
Linux Academy: System Administration Basics. Bremen, Informatica Feminale, September 2007
Practical Drupal - Case Studies, FrOSCon, St. Augustin, August 2007
Open Source CMS - Finding your way through a plenty of choices, LinuxTag, Berlin, Mai 2007
Collaborative Knowledge Management with Plone, Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon), Bonn/Rhein-Sieg, June 2006
Linux Training: Operating System, Desktop and Open Source Philosophy, FrauenComputerZentrum (fczb), Berlin, May 2006
Migration to Open Source Databases, Open Database Conference, Frankfurt/M., Germany, November 2005
Migration to Open Source Databases, O'Reilly European OSCON, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2005
Cryptography Workshop, Informatica Feminale, Bremen, Germany, September 2005
Connecting Ethiopia to the Internet Age by Free/OS Software, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 2004

Selena Deckelmann

Location: Portland
Speaking Topics: Databases | drupal | monitoring | Open Source Community | postgresql | sysadmin | system administration | automation

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Selena Deckelmann bikes herself to work everyday at Chris King Precision Components, a bicycle parts manufacturer in Portland, OR, where she is Information Systems Manager. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech.

Previous Presentations: 
ptop - PostgreSQL performance monitoring, PostgreSQL Conference East 2008
Wordpress vs Drupal, LUG Radio Live 2008
IM IN UR DATABASE, PerlMongers 2008

Gloria W

Location: NYC | Philadelphia
Speaking Topics: Python | CometD | PHP5 | Symfony | MySQL | postgresql | History/evolution of Open Source development as I remember it.

Previous Presentations: 
Keynote speaker at the CWC in New Zealand.
Keynote speaker at the /etc in Austria
Columnist for The Python Papers

Penny

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: elearning | git | mahara | moodle | open source | php | postgresql

Brenda Wallace

Location: New Zealand | Wellington
Speaking Topics: opensource | php | The impending robot apocalypse | mobile | linux | memcache | eaccelerator | postgresql | sms | wap | mms | postgresql data replication | perl | drupal | super happy dev house | unit testing | kannel
Spoken Languages: English

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Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and doesn't understand what the fuss is over Java.

Previous Presentations: 
Memcache - Linux.conf.au 2008
Php + eacclerator - OSCON 2007
Memcache, postgresql - Wellington Perl Mongers
Memcache, eacclerator - Wellington PHP Users' Group
Bucardo - Wellington Postgresql Users' Group
Adding SMS to applications @ Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa
Wellington Geek Networking @ Summer of Code (Wellington)
Open Source Licensing @ Linuxchix Wellington
Linuxchix in NZ @ Perl Mongers
Managing Database Schema Patches with Perl
Simple Test -- Natcoll Wellington